County: Cork Site name: ROCHESTOWN: Harty's Quay, Monfieldstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 75:45 Licence number: 00E0607
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 572891m, N 569658m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.878444, -8.393723
Four test-trenches were opened by mechanical digger on 13 June 2000. All four trenches were opened along an east–west axis running the whole width of the quay and were 1.5m wide and c. 1.3m deep. The stratigraphic content was similar in all the trenches: topsoil to a depth of 0.4m; subsoil at the western end to a depth of 1.3m; and at the eastern end loose rubble fill, 0.25m thick, under concrete and above subsoil. Below this at 1.3m was estuarine clay. No archaeological features, layers or artefacts were noted in the trenches.
Editor's note: This report was formerly labelled 'Possible shell midden'.
1 Charlemont Heights, Coach Hill, Rochestown, Co. Cork
